People Quotes

Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming.

J. P. McEvoy

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

Philip Guedalla

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster, as a small child

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached on an angle.

Matthew Arnold

His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.

Stephen King

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are not gains without pains.

Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count them decide everything.

Josef Stalin

In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

S. I. Hayakawa

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

Barry Switze

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

Rebecca West

Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well.

Missy Dizick

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Some people get angry because God put thorns on roses, while others praise him for putting roses among thorns.

Anonymous

Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Mitch True love is hard to find, sometimes you think you have true love and then you catch the early flight home from San Diego and a couple of nude people jump out of your bathroom blindfolded like a goddamn magic show ready to double team your girlfriend...

Old School

There are two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified.

Carl Van Vechten

The heart may think it knows better the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.

Elizabeth Bowen

On account of us being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

Will Rogers

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

Clement Atlee

The Irish are a fair people - They never speak well of one another.

Samuel Johnson

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.

Albert Schweitze

Whether they live in an igloo or a grass shack or a mud hut, people around the world all want the same thing a better house.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.

Author Unknown

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

Johann von Goethe

Success has a simple formula do your best, and people may like it.

Sam Ewig

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

Eugene McCarthy

When there are two conflicting versions of the story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst.

H. Allen Smith

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they? ve got a second. Give your dreams all you? ve got and you? ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you!!

William James

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - - Gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

Tennessee Williams

My home is not a place, it is people.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

U. S. Constitution

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

Jean Ke

Those people have seen something. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know. on flying saucers.

Albert Einstein